b.siobhan

Whenever moving into a new space, my Great Grandmother Mary would pray over a new space. While she was reciting Psalm 91, she would bless the entrances and door frames. When we cleaned we would cleanse the whole space, even down to wiping the walls. Forgiving the previ...

Strength and Her Dwelling is an experimental performance series that speaks on the creation and labor required to maintain a “home”. Referencing newlywed-ness and often over-informed decisions of a cis black millennial, she takes queues from Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their...

Cyclorama was probably the biggest accomplish and disappointment of my artistic career. After pushing so hard for several months, I finally burned out the night before my performance. Although it went extremely well, and I received a lot of compliments on my pie...

“One never feels [their] two-ness, - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone kept is from being torn asunder” - W.E.B. Dubois, The Souls of Black Folk

Last semester one of my professors asked me a really hard question after one of my crits. “Why do we need to see this performance?”, I couldn’t answer her in a way that was satisfying, settling on making a comment about performance simply being an important part o...

I am thinking back to a conversation I had with Carol Stakenas today. We talked about the presentation of performance, and stragaties to performing privately vs publically. We talked about the function of my performances, and the pieces that I create within them, which...